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Last week in the runoff, Lawyer Smith won his case by 20,000-odd votes.The eastern section of the state, where the Negro population centers but where comparatively few Negroes vote, switched almost solidly to Smith. Said Smith: "I believe I know the viewpoint of North Carolina...
Rene Massigli, French Ambassador to London, was called to Paris to see if his superior knowledge of the English language and the British viewpoint could help straighten things out. In Paris, British Ambassador Sir Oliver Harvey's big Rolls-Royce virtually ran a shuttle service between the British embassy and the Quai d'Orsay as Harvey delivered the messages from London. At one point, the British embassy issued a statement to the press: "It is important at this stage to make the British government's attitude quite clear. The British government yield to none in their approval...
Well, times have changed. We still get letters from this fringe of our readers denouncing our anti-Communist attitude, but the balance of criticism has shifted. Now more of these people seem to think that TIME'S viewpoint on the news tends to the Communistic side. Wrote one: "You have definitely listed yourselves with the Left Wingers, et al., who are set upon changing our form of government." Said another: "If you prefer to be a traitor and love Russian Communism, come out in the open with it." And a third: "You whitewash the Communist news...
...broke in on the Milwaukee Sentinel, moved to the St. Louis Star (now the Star-Times) as a copyreader. "One day they fired the sports department," recalls Red, and he got his chance. His first assignment was night football practice at Washington University. Red wrote the story from the viewpoint of a glowworm outshone by the floodlights. It was "cute," but it made a hit with readers, and Smith was a sportwriter for good. In 1936, he moved to the Philadelphia Record and a bylined column, and in 1945 to the Herald Tribune. Red's favorite sports : baseball, football...
Reversing the traditional, or Founding Fathers, viewpoint, his narrative deals largely with the trip itself, taking the immigrants only through the first few months of their settlement in the New World...